linguistics This tiny North Carolina island is last place in America where people talk like actual pirates (video) Ellsworth Toohey

tourism "Out of control" behavior: Kyoto bans tourists from Geisha district Mark Frauenfelder

Culture Creative industry workers suffer the most stolen wages, according to UNESCO Thom Dunn

climate change Druids prop up faerie stone knocked over by a bull to stop bad luck, sparking government investigation Thom Dunn

Technology Video Game History Foundation to release scans of 1,500 vintage gaming magazines Ellsworth Toohey

archaeology This 2,500-year-old Chinese sword looks like "something from the J.R.R. Tolkien universe that has entered the actual historical record" Ellsworth Toohey

History US giving away free lighthouses to groups who will take care of them David Pescovitz

music Watch Native American rock band Redbone perform "Come out and get your love" (1974) Elías Villoro

documentaries "The Starry Night Toad," a new documentary by First Nations Frontline Elías Villoro

movies 1954's Salt of the Earth told a powerful story of American labor Elías Villoro

books Exquisite photographs of America's abandoned places Rob Beschizza

code Code Vault: there's an archival film copy of Github 250 meters underground in Svalbard, down the road from the seeds Rob Beschizza

Harold and Maude Harold and Maude Turns 50 Janelle Hessig

mashups Legend of Beavis Rob Beschizza

american history There are 43 giant stone Presidential heads crumbling in a field in Virginia Thom Dunn

brexit After Brexit, Britain may finally lose its Marbles — specifically the ones they stole from Greece Thom Dunn

music Save the ARC, the largest popular music library in the United States David Pescovitz

happy mutants At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse: an interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner Thomas Kaestle

History "Time capsule" letters from 18th century found in Jesus's butt David Pescovitz

art Mysterious murals of creepy green creatures at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base David Pescovitz